I had a chance to catch up with Eddie Lou, who is the Founder of Sandman Studios and Director of Sandbox Immersive Festival that's based in China. I get an update as to what's happening with the Chinese ecosystem for immersive stories, how he's bring Western stories to China within a location-based entertainment context, his plans for bringing back the Sandbox Immersive Festival as a physical exhibition with international presence, their work on a social VR platform based on Unreal Engine called Vast (which was used on Mandala that premiered at Venice 2022), and their work on bringing Chinese musical acts into immersive spaces with the browser-based, pixel-streaming experience called Neo-Wulin: The Era of Black Ark that was showing as a special exhibition at SXSW.











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